River Rouge Plant (Pictures Taken for the Kaiser) Part 2
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Automobile assembly line, workers lowering body onto car, fastening bolts, car driven off assembly line - automobiles having finishing touches put on and being driven off assembly line and out of plant - crowd of workers on elevated walkway, yard below - workers in yard, on elevated walkways, streetcars on street, parked cars and railroad yard in background - cars leaving parking lot, driven along street - airplane taking off of field, plant in background, taxiing airplane car driven up to ‘Chatham’ apartments, Prince Louis Ferdinand getting out, entering house - powerhouse interior, row of turbines, workers, group touring - cement plant, piles of ingredients in foreground - ships at docks, cranes - workers on deck of ship with torches cutting sides - flame from torches from outside hull - scrap being removed from ship by crane - assembly lines, parts moving on conveyors people boarding bus stopped at curb - bus moving through business district, pedestrian, automobile traffic - bus stopping in front of Ford Motor Company, group entering building - views of various plant buildings, pedestrian traffic - overhead conveyor and walkway system from yard. [1931]
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